Councillor

St Andrew's College

Founder

Queen Victoria Homes for Consumptives

A free private hospital established for the care of patients suffering from tuberculosis. Patients were initially housed in a hotel in Picton before a purpose-built facility was opened in Thirlmere in 1886 and another in Wentworth Falls in 1903.

Goodlet & Smith

Bark huts and country estates

In their drive to establish country estates and thriving industries in the Cooks River valley during the nineteenth century, European settlers exploited the water, timber and fertile soils of the Cooks River with little appreciation of the impact of their 'improvements'